Andrew J. Moodie

Andrew J. Moodie

Assistant Professor, Texas A&M Geography. Quantitative surface processes and geomorphology to enable sustainable landscapes.


A complete CV is available here

Manuscripts in preparation and in review

  1. Moodie, A. J., & Goudge, T. A. (in review). Fluvial reworking eliminates small craters, but does not meaningfully bias the Mars interbedded-crater record. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. [link]

  2. Moodie, A. J., Hariharan, J., & Passalacqua, P. (in preparation). Assessing delta land-building over a cross-sloped basin, using DeltaMetrics for reproducible science. Earth Surface Dynamics.

  3. Vanderheiden, A., Hales, B., Moodie, A. J., & Güneralp, İ. (in preparation). ScrollStats: a python tool for quantifying scroll bar morphology on meandering rivers. Journal of Open Source Software.

Manuscripts published

  1. Hariharan, J., Wright, K., Moodie, A., Tull, N., & Passalacqua, P. (2023). Impacts of human modifications on material transport in deltas. Earth Surface Dynamics, 11(3), 405–427. doi: 10.5194/esurf-11-405-2023

  2. Limaye, A. B., Adler, J. B., Moodie, A. J., Whipple, K. X., & Howard, A. D. (2023). Effect of Standing Water on Formation of Fan-Shaped Sedimentary Deposits at Hypanis Valles, Mars. Geophysical Research Letters, 50. doi: 10.1029/2022GL102367

  3. Wu, C., Kim, W., Herring, R., Cardenas, B., Dong, T., Ma, H., Moodie, A. J., Tsai, F. T. C., Li, A., & Nittrouer, J. A. (2023). Pace of meandering and avulsion set river sinuosity near coast on Earth and Mars. Nature Geoscience. doi: 10.1038/s41561-023-01231-1

  4. Moodie, A., Carlson, B., Foreman, B., Kwang, J., Naito, K., & Nittrouer, J. (2022). SedEdu: software organizing sediment-related educational modules. Journal of Open Source Education, 5(56), 129. doi: 10.21105/jose.00129

  5. Hariharan, J., Passalacqua, P., Xu, Z., Michael, H. A., Steel, E., Chadwick, A., Paola, C., & Moodie, A. J. (2022). Modeling the Dynamic Response of River Deltas to Sea-Level Rise Acceleration. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 127(9). doi: 10.1029/2022JF006762

  6. Moodie, A. J., Nittrouer, J. A., Ma, H., Carlson, B. N., Wang, Y., & Lamb, M. P. (2021). Suspended-sediment induced stratification inferred from concentration and velocity profile measurements in the flooding lower Yellow River, China. Water Resources Research. doi: 10.1029/2020WR027192

  7. Carlson, B. N., Nittrouer, J. A., Swanson, T. E., Moodie, A. J., Dong, T. Y., Ma, H., Kineke, G. C., Pan, M., & Wang, H. (2021). The effects of engineered diversions and natural avulsions on abandoned lobe development and shoreline stability. Geophysical Research Letters. doi: 10.1029/2021GL092438

  8. Moodie, A. J., & Nittrouer, J. A. (2021). Optimized river diversion scenarios promote sustainability of urbanized deltas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(27). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2101649118

  9. Moodie, A. J., Hariharan, J., Barefoot, E., & Passalacqua, P. (2021). pyDeltaRCM: a flexible numerical delta model. Journal of Open Source Software, 6(64), 3398. doi: 10.21105/joss.03398

  10. Moodie, A. J., & Passalacqua, P. (2021). When does faulting-induced subsidence drive distributary network reorganization? Geophysical Research Letters, 48(22). doi: 10.1029/2021GL095053

  11. Ma, H., Nittrouer, J. A., Wu, B., Lamb, M. P., Zhang, Y., Mohrig, D., Fu, X., Naito, K., Wang, Y., Moodie, A. J., Wang, G., Hu, C., & Parker, G. (2020). Universal relation with regime transition for sediment transport in fine-grained rivers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1911225116

  12. de Leeuw, J., Lamb, M. P., Parker, G., Moodie, A. J., Haught, D., Venditti, J. G., & Nittrouer, J. A. (2020). Entrainment and suspension of sand and gravel. Earth Surface Dynamics. doi: 10.5194/esurf-8-485-2020

  13. Lamb, M. P., Leeuw, J. de, Fischer, W., Moodie, A. J., Venditti, J. G., Nittrouer, J. A., Haught, D., & Parker, G. (2020). Mud in rivers transported as flocculated and suspended bed-material. Nature Geoscience. doi: 10.1038/s41561-020-0602-5

  14. Dong, T. Y., Nittrouer, J. A., McElroy, B. J., Il’icheva, E., Pavlov, M., Ma, H., & Moodie, A. J. (2020). Predicting water and sediment partitioning in a delta channel network under varying discharge conditions. Water Resources Research. doi: 10.1029/2020WR027199

  15. Carlson, B. N., Nittrouer, J. A., Moodie, A. J., Kineke, G. C., Kumpf, L. L., Ma, H., Parsons, D. R., & Wang, H. (2020). Infilling Abandoned Deltaic Distributary Channels Through Landward Sediment Transport. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 125(2). doi: 10.1029/2019JF005254

  16. Chadwick, A. J., Lamb, M. P., Moodie, A. J., Parker, G., & Nittrouer, J. A. (2019). Origin of a Preferential Avulsion Node on Lowland River Deltas. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(8), 4267–4277. doi: 10.1029/2019GL082491

  17. Moodie, A. J., Nittrouer, J. A., Ma, H., Carlson, B. N., Chadwick, A. J., Lamb, M. P., & Parker, G. (2019). Modeling Deltaic Lobe-Building Cycles and Channel Avulsions for the Yellow River Delta, China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 124(11), 2438–2462. doi: 10.1029/2019JF005220

  18. An, C., Moodie, A. J., Ma, H., Fu, X., Zhang, Y., Naito, K., & Parker, G. (2018). Morphodynamic model of lower Yellow River: flux or entrainment form for sediment mass conservation? Earth Surface Dynamics, 6(4), 989–1010. doi: 10.5194/esurf-6-989-2018

  19. Moodie, A. J., Pazzaglia, F. J., & Berti, C. (2017). Exogenic forcing and autogenic processes on continental divide location and mobility. Basin Research. doi: 10.1111/bre.12256

  20. Ma, H., Nittrouer, J. A., Naito, K., Fu, X., Zhang, Y., Moodie, A. J., Wang, Y., Wu, B., & Parker, G. (2017). The exceptional sediment load of fine-grain dispersal systems: Example of the Yellow River, China. Science Advances, 3, 7. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1603114

  21. Tull, N., Moodie, A. J., & Passalacqua, P. (2024). River-Floodplain Connectivity and Residence Times Controlled by Topographic Bluffs Along a Backwater Transition. Frontiers in Water, 5. doi: 10.3389/frwa.2023.1306481